The Northport selasphorus (rufous) hummingbird named Ilsa is alive and well and happily coming to her feeders. She is at 21 Woodhull Place (red house fronted by three large norway spruces). Also had a low flyover rough-legged hawk which temporarily emptied my backyard of birdlife.

Years ago, when visiting family in Arizona, we took a trip to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. They have a large outdoor hummingbird atrium. Sometimes it gets very cold in the desert at night, so they had heat lamps all over the enclosure mounted above perches. They looked like the lamps above the french fries in a fast-food restaurant. French Fried Hummers anyone?